Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] [prep] a [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cumberland was on record as believing that a battle without a cannonade was like a dance without music and Culloden began as a gunners ’ battle . |
| 2 | Letters like these are worthy of recording , especially when the writer from Camberley finished with a p.s. that concludes ‘ As a satisfied customer , needless to say I have not even looked at any other . ’ |
| 3 | But as Mrs Fleetwood watched for a police car the pair stole £120 and fled . |
| 4 | It had become a real Waterloo : Alexandre collapsed into a Builders Arms ! |
| 5 | As she again became distraught yesterday , Detective Superintendent Ian Whinnett sent for a police psychiatrist . |
| 6 | Probably anticipating the enhancing of the already considerable temperature that might ensue from a stretch of proven hell-raising , Pukwana called for a blues , and set about declaring his intent with that impassioned alto cry ( the instrument in his hands displaying the weight of the tenor as well as the wild , wayward quality of the higher horn ) that has been thrilling British audiences since the Sixties . |
| 7 | Mrs Cynthia Jarrett died during a police search of her home in October 1985 , as did a five-year-old boy , John Shorthouse , when a police gun went off accidentally during a search of his home . |
| 8 | These jobs were soon done , and Redpath telephoned for a police car to take the cartridges and clothes to their respective experts . |
| 9 | Mr Nagdi died in a police car on his way to hospital . |
| 10 | FIERY Paul Stewart saw red here last night as Liverpool ran into a Cup-Winners Cup storm . |
| 11 | In Hydepark Street , Harry McShane broke through a police cordon by running at it backwards . |
| 12 | If a Thursday coincided with a Saints Day , we were rewarded by being able to go across to Mrs. Robbins ' after the service and order a pennyworth of sweets apiece — the Hospital trustees picking up the bill . |
| 13 | The Jarvis family had all come down in the world , considering the money their Victorian grandfather , a manufacturer of bathroom fittings , had made for them , Ernest with the dwindling Cambridge School , Evelina nutty as a squirrel 's cage and with her first sojourn in a nursing home behind her , Cecilia married to a Customs officer . |
| 14 | Ralph Meeker snapped an old man 's priceless Caruso record in half in Kiss Me Deadly , Richard Conte tortured Cornel Wilde by turning up a hearing aid and shouting into it in The Big Combo , Ingrid Bergman drank the poisoned Brazilian coffee in Notorious , Charles Laughton plunged down a lift shaft in The Big Clock , Orson Welles and Rita Hayworth shot it out in a hall of mirrors in Lady from Shanghai , Edmond O'Brien lurched into a police station to report his own murder in D.O.A. , Tony Curtis was brutally beaten by a corrupt cop in Sweet Smell of Success , Laurence Harvey jumped in the lake in The Manchurian Candidate . |
| 15 | A social worker was called in and , with a lot of support , Annie moved to a women 's refuge and then to a small flat . |